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Chapter 36: Golden Cage

作者: Stan
last update 公開日: 2026-09-05 01:29:11

Valerie

The suite was beautiful in the way prisons sometimes were.

Every surface gleamed. Every piece of furniture looked like it cost more than most people made in a year. The windows overlooked the city from thirty floors up, and guards stood at every entrance, their expressions blank, their loyalty absolute.

The triplets had been given their own room, a luxury none of them seemed to know what to do with. They had fallen asleep quickly despite the unfamiliar surroundings, exhausted by the eve
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